The Workshop And The Black Sea

There is a town by the Black Sea in Georgia called Batumi. Batumi is a holidayresort but also a small city. This is were we held our workshop, with six Swedish and six Georgian illustrators and authors. Batumi was rainy but nice. We worked really intense so I didn't think about taking photographs. If you want to read more about the participants there is a booklet
here for download. Beware, it is pretty heavy.

Digital Embroidery

This weeks debate

Seminar And Workshop in Georgia

Sorry for being such a bad blogger lately. I have been to Georgia for a couple of weeks arranging a seminar and a workshop about childrens books. These pictures are from Tbilisi, and the dolls museum where the seminar was held. The program is still available for download here
if you are interrested. It was a success with about a hundred participants and lots of diskussions and meetings. We also had an exhibition with Swedish and Georgian childrens literature. Pictures from the workshop in Batumi next week.

Ingrid Vang Nyman And More

I have found a beatiful and inspiring blog about illustrations in childrens' books, The Apple and The Egg. I found this as I were looking for a brazilian book by Bernardo Carvalho, A Grande Invasao. Lot's of pictures!

My pictures are from 60th schoolbook Let's read illustrated by danish/swedish illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman, more known as the first illustrator of Pippi Långstrump. I am very fond of the illustrations of animals and things, maybe more so than the ones of the kids. Maybe because the kids are so known and seen in the Pippi-books..
I saw an exhibition a few years ago with her original drawings, they were really really small. She used to sharpen matchsticks and then dip them into ink. After a few lines she had to make another one. She lay in bed, drawing and when the bed was full of inky matchsticks then she covered them up with another sheet. So, who needs an office?

Fast Trains

Old Junk From University

Right now my life is a mess since I moving, and I have been living in my old apartement for 18 years. This is some old stuff i found, and I have no idea what to do with it but publish it here. I wonder if the crocodile was some precognition thing for my African travels

Last Weeks Debate

I like the roof best. And the moon.